Mistakes that give you the RAGE

[poemontheocean]

'Should of' - it's should HAVE.
'Alot' is not even a WORD!

Add yours!

loose and lose

It's versus its
Your versus you're
Mischievous versus mischievious (just so wrong)
Too versus to (pops up on Mumsnet a lot)

As a TEFL teacher, I see errors on a daily basis so when I see them IRL on MN I don't bat an eye.

Life's too short for getting my knickers in a twist over practice/practise.

I guess a lot of errors pop up on MN due to fat-fingeritis, especially something like to/too. I never MN from a computer.

Hypercorrection - that's what makes me rage. Mistakes I can cope with, but replacing something right with something wrong is awful.

"On behalf of my wife and I" - ARGH.

The 'of' for 'have' thing seems to be spreading like a virus for halfwits.

Having a lazy week this week, some of it spent in hospital with one of my children, I watched an embarassing amount of This Morning (need to justify it) which was presented by Rylan Clark (I think that's his surname). His constant 'was you' and 'we was' drove me to distraction.

People misusing ellipses. I mean ...............it's petty, isn't it? But.......YOU CAN DO THEM WITH ONE KEY PRESS.

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Has anyone else noticed people using 'wander', when they actually mean 'wonder'? I used to think they were just typos, but I see it so often, that I think the majority of them must be meant!

Apostrophes in plurals. I'm expected to teach apostrophes to my class of 6 year olds when all around them, apostrophes are misused.

Every day versus everyday

Your versus you're as posted above. My opinion of Harry Stiles did a 180 degree turn when he corrected a fan's sign.

Embarrassing.

Defiantly

What are you trying to infer?

The Wellesley advert, the old one, in which they pronounced it with 3 syllables. They've corrected now, maybe they heard me shouting at the telly!

'Discrete' being used instead of 'discreet'. shudder

"to all intensive purposes"

'Myself' or 'yourself' used in the wrong context. I notice this a lot (alot! Lol) in work. Example: 'and yourself?', or who is going to the meeting? 'Just Carrie and myself'. Drives me insane!

Recently I've noticed that loads of people no longer use objects with verbs - as in, saying that something 'offends'/'excites'/'annoys'.

I frequently find myself close to shrieking, "BUT WHO DOES IT OFFEND?! WHO DOES IT ANNOY?"

twitch

"Me and DH are going..."

It's everywhere on MN.

Is/are confusion

I quite like viscous circle, have seen that a few times lately.

'Less' instead of 'fewer'

ect rather than etc. - it's not even a word!

I hate it when people drop words out of a sentence, "I'm going town" instead of "I'm going to town", might be just a regional thing?

Pacific instead of specific. MIL does it and it drives me to distraction.

I worked out what all the 'defiantly' instead of definitely is all about. People put definately into their phone and it autocorrects to defiantly rather than definitely.

Not a mistake as such, but... Think, used completely out of context.

I booked my holiday today - think Italy. I had a nice sandwich for lunch - think ham and cheese.
I hate "cue" and "fast forward" just as much, too

This is a particularly mean form of pedantic, but when posters on threads in Relationships talk about going for councilling. It's counselling, FFS!